OK. Thanks, Jay. Best, jmj
On Oct 7, 2014, at 8:09 AM, Jay McCarthy <[email protected]> wrote: > As far as I know, a library similar to what you describe does not > exist. As far as using authentication generally, there's nothing > special that you should do differently in a Racket app... just follow > any advice out there on the Internet but generate the HTML and check > the request with Racket. There are some libraries for reading and > writing common digest formats: > > web-server/http/id-cookie > web-server/http/basic-auth > web-server/http/digest-auth > > Jay > > On Mon, Oct 6, 2014 at 8:05 PM, Jordan Johnson <[email protected]> wrote: >> Dear Racketeers, >> >> [tl;dr: I’m wondering what is the current state of the art for >> authentication in Racket Web apps. What would be a good starting point for >> learning how to do authentication with options to authenticate via password >> DB and via OAuth with a common authorization service such as those from >> Google and Facebook?] >> >> I haven’t done much Web programming in recent years, so I’m not familiar >> with standard practice for authentication and authorization, and the sheer >> quantity of info out there is daunting. One of my students was demoing a >> Meteor app he wrote, and I was impressed by the apparent simplicity: just >> adding something like “{{login_buttons}}” to the page template got him HTML >> login buttons, Google/FB login (once he obtained an app key), and a session >> object he could use for checking authorization in his DB queries. I’m >> wondering if anybody’s written a similar library in Racket. The closest I >> seem to be able to find are Ryan Culpepper’s webapi/oauth2 and Ray Racine’s >> gut/oauth packages. Any further suggestions? >> >> Thanks, >> Jordan >> >> >> ____________________ >> Racket Users list: >> http://lists.racket-lang.org/users > > > > -- > Jay McCarthy > http://jeapostrophe.github.io > > "Wherefore, be not weary in well-doing, > for ye are laying the foundation of a great work. > And out of small things proceedeth that which is great." > - D&C 64:33 ____________________ Racket Users list: http://lists.racket-lang.org/users
